12 November 2011

never use this font

My students' biggest problem is simply leaving their type in the default font: Myriad. Their second biggest problem is that when they finally do discover the ability to change the font, they choose one of these awful fonts: Comic Sans, Papyrus, Party LET, or Zapfino. I don't blame them. Most inexperienced designers do. (Including those yahoos behind Avatar.)

Someone in my department at work started using Century Gothic for everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. We're talking Century Gothic in the data in Excel. So gross. The thing is, I love Century Gothic in moderation. But I'm on a mission now to find everything this person has ever written or printed and change it. Ugh!